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Dear Friend,
Be careful where you post your vacation photos. They might end up in
Wal-Mart's hands.
Last year I took a vacation from my job at Wal-Mart Watch, and when I got home, I privately posted my photos online for family members to see. Later, a Wal-Mart technician collected my personal vacation photos in an effort to identify me during a trip to Bentonville, Arkansas.
Spooky, huh? There's a lot more to this story. Click here to take our quiz and learn more about Wal-Mart's spy operation:
http://action.walmartwatch.com/quiz
A recent series of stories in the Wall Street Journal uncovered a covert security division within Wal-Mart's corporate headquarters called "Threat Research." This team, which works out of a secret "dimly lit area," conducts surveillance on Wal-Mart employees, consultants, reporters and critics. People like you and me.
This isn't the plot of a spy movie -- this is real life. And while many large companies have internal security operations designed to root out fraud and theft, security experts agree that Wal-Mart's "Threat Research" goes well beyond the scope of typical security. One expert even called it "Orwellian."
Why is Wal-Mart, which faces grave reputational problems, hiring former CIA and FBI agents to deal with these issues? We're offering legitimate, substantive feedback on how to make Wal-Mart a better corporate citizen, and they respond by spying on us?
To learn all the details, click here and take our quiz:
http://action.walmartwatch.com/quiz
The fact is, former CIA and FBI agents are not going to fix Wal-Mart's public relations problems. Neither will the millions of dollars that Wal-Mart spends each month on fancy PR consultants.
If Wal-Mart wants to protect its image, it should spend its money on higher wages and affordable health care for its employees -- not on elaborate acts of espionage. That's what Wal-Mart Watch is fighting for, and what Wal-Mart is going through such great lengths to
prevent.
Find out more about Wal-Mart's misguided priorities:
http://action.walmartwatch.com/quiz
I don't know what my vacation photos have to do with Wal-Mart's security, but the fact that they snatched them shows just how far they'll go to silence their critics.
Sincerely, Nu Wexler
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Just
Another Reason I've NEVER Set Foot in WALMARX
"...recent news stories revealed they've been wiretapping phone conversations
between their own PR staff and a New York Times reporter. Think about
that for a second: Wal-Mart can't even trust its own spokespeople to "stay
on message" with the media. What's more, Wal-Mart spies also intercepted
text messages from people with no connection to the company at all. Who
knows who else they're listening to? http://action.walmartwatch.com/WarnThePress
America's news reporters need your help. Send a letter to the editor of
your local paper, and warn them that if they talk to someone from Wal-Mart,
someone else might be listening.
Wal-Mart has always been about control -- control of their employees,
control of their suppliers, control of government officials, and control
of their image. That's why they've assembled a massive corporate intelligence
operation, headed by a former CIA official." - Walmart Watch
